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Subject: Covenant Civil War Scripted or A.I.
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I was just wondering if when the covenant start to turn on each other (as Bungie has hinted at for several weeks) if it was scripted (wrote in) or A.I. (the computer does it at any time it wants)? Which would you rather have as well scripted or A.I.? Personally I think it would be better if the A.I. handled it...imagine going into a gun fight and seeing a brute accidently hit an elite...then all hell brakes loose in that unit......so fun to watch!

  • 07.01.2004 5:41 AM PDT

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scripted is something that triggers something else to happen whereas if its in the AI the characters react to the situation using a set of rules to follow...

I think perhaps if a brute and elite are trying to kill you they will probably turn on each other and melee attack each other if theyre in their line of fire and what not. I don't think they will have this civil war that everyone talks about though.

  • 07.01.2004 5:47 AM PDT
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but seriously think about it.....an elite or brute doing something wrong could add a whole new aspect to the game....you could lead the enemies shots into their allies and just run past that part if they begin to tear each other apart....maybe its cheap...but who knows

  • 07.01.2004 7:46 AM PDT
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If it was AI it would be freaky. Comon having a program organize a revolt based on feelings! That would be freaky. In the LOTR movies they used AI battle of Helm's Deep. The progamed the armies to kill each other and let the program run. Whats weird is that sometimes the defenders would look at the oncomming horde and they would flee! That was a pinnacle of AI.Now if they use that type of ant type intelligence in Halo 2 a revolt would not be possible, ants do not revolt. As for a scripted revolt it would be very possible.

  • 07.01.2004 8:01 AM PDT
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lol freaky? i guess your right....

  • 07.01.2004 8:23 AM PDT
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that b cool

  • 07.01.2004 8:36 AM PDT
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Both I think. Anything is possible.

  • 07.01.2004 9:02 AM PDT

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i really think that even though a brute and elite may detest each other, there is one thing certain, they detest MC even more.

I think if MC stumbles across them fighting they will put aside their differences, hug, embrace, hold hands and then try and rip MCs face off and shoot his guts out. I say "try".

  • 07.01.2004 9:17 AM PDT
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this maybe true...but what if it was the jackals and the grunts? you really think they would just stop fighting and turn on you? i doubt so...i think they hate each other more then the brutes/elites....

  • 07.01.2004 4:28 PM PDT
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First off the Covenant as a whole are too damn zealous to turn against each other. They believe that they are the blessed ones of the Forerunner and we are the heathens that must be crushed. They consider themselves holy and us unclean, and because they are so damn self-righteous they won't revolt on each other. Plus they are not that smart in the first place. They may have their little differences and minor hatreds of the different races, but they wouldn't break a covenant that they made and kept for only God knows how long.

  • 07.01.2004 4:36 PM PDT
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the hunters are fairly new... i think it would be cool, if an elite and a brute were arguing, you could shoot the elite and the it would be all like"
Elite: Dude, what the -blam!-?
Brute: What the hell are you talkin about?
Elite: You just -blam!- shot me, that's what I'm talkin about.
B: I did not, you lying -blam!-.
E (to all his friends): Hey, everyone, this -blam!-face just shot me.
Friends: Kill him!
B: shut up you goddamn -blam!-hs (cause they're spec op, black elites)
E: oh, now you goin down, mutha-blam!-a.

And then they start killing eachother

  • 07.01.2004 4:59 PM PDT
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ooooook

  • 07.01.2004 5:02 PM PDT
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yep

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I think Bungie might of given misinformation on this.

It's not like if an elite accidently shoots a brute once, he will raise hell on the Elite, right?

It would be cool to see, but sometimes it's an accident from an elite or whatever. So just by one shot from your own teamate wouldn't be a brawl. They'd be more focused on killing Master Cheif and the Marines then pick a fist fight in the middle of a war.


I guess you could have A.I. that might purposely do it, if the circumstances are right. And to be honest, what about the A.I. if a shot from an elite's gun gets to a Brute? Will the Elite move and find a better position to shoot?

I think Halo 2's level of A.I. would be superior to anything like that. I mean the Covenant would be alot more smarter this time around thanks to the new A.I. system. And would avoid contact with their own teamates, allthough it can happen.


  • 07.01.2004 5:23 PM PDT
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the possiblity of this happening just makes me want it even more......seeing a mini war would make me laugh my balls off

  • 07.01.2004 8:35 PM PDT
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i think it would be cool, they did it in marathon (which yes [to you new ppl] is a bungie game) it worked like this: if you get one of the phfor to shoot another phfor by circling them or getting one infront of anothers line of fire they would start to get mad at eachother then if it happend so they took a certain ammount of damage they would attack eachother.

[Edited on 7/1/2004 9:14:02 PM]

  • 07.01.2004 9:12 PM PDT